Archives for June 2013

How Xyratex and Cray Delivered the World's Fastest and Most Efficient File System

In this video from ISC’13, Torben Kling-Petersen describes how Xyratex and Cray were able to deliver 1.1 Terabyte/sec on the world’s fastest and most efficient file system for the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA. Check out more from from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.

Simulating Orbital Impacts with TACC Supercomputers

The sky is getting crowded. According to NASA, there are more than 21,000 pieces of ‘space junk’ roughly the size of a baseball in orbit, and about 500,000 pieces that are golf ball-sized. To help mitigate risk, researchers are using TACC supercomputers to simulate orbital debris impacts on spacecraft. If a spacecraft is hit by […]

Video: Scalable Informatics Benchmarks Record I/O Performance on STAC-M3

In this video from ISC’13, Russell Nordquist from Scalable Informatics describes how the company’s siFlash and JackRabbit storage devices achieved record performance on the STAC-M3 benchmark. Read the Full Story or check out more from from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.

CANARIE Expands 100G Research & Education Network with Ciena

This week Ciena announced that Canada’s CANARIE, Advanced Research and Innovation Network has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform for a high-speed route from Montreal and New York. The new ultra-high-speed network link will sustain the “big data” streams used in today’s advanced academic and scientific research. For example, the 100G link can allow a full […]

Jim Jeffers on High Performance Programming for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

In this video from ISC’13, Jim Jeffers from Intel discusses the new Intel Xeon Phi product family and how programmers can take advantage of parallelism to optimize applications performance. Jeffers is the co-author of the book, Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming. Authors Jim Jeffers and James Reinders spent two years helping educate customers […]

Compute Canada Does Heavy Lifting for BigBrain Project

Millions of hours of data processing time on Compute Canada’s advanced computing facilities have helped an international team of researchers complete the world’s first high-resolution 3D digital model of the human brain. The BigBrain Project, involving researchers from Germany and Canada, has unveiled a whole-brain model at 50 times the resolution, in each of the […]

RADIOSS Structural Analysis Solver Application Performance Optimizations

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Europe Conference, Eric Lequiniou from Altair presents: RADIOSS Structural Analysis Solver Application Performance Optimizations. For over 20 years, RADIOSS has established itself as a leader and an industry standard for automotive crash and impact analysis. Automotive and aerospace companies value the contribution it makes in understanding and […]

Student Cluster Teams Defy Moore's Law at ISC'13

Over at the Student Cluster Competition Blog, Dan Olds has written up the official results from the ISC’13 Klusterkamph, including the record 8.4 Teraflop Linpack score achieved by Huazong University of Science & Technology. It’s surprising to see just how quickly the students have advanced the LINPACK frontier in just the past year. At the […]

Intel Powers Comsol Multiphysics at ISC'13

In this video from ISC’13, Ullrich Becker-Lemgau from Intel and Dr. Winfried Geis from Comsol demonstrate Multiphysics simulation on a deskside cluster powered by Intel Xeon processors. When considering what makes software reliable, it’s helpful to remember the goal: you want a model that accurately depicts what happens in the real world. A computer simulation […]

ECMWF to Boost European Weather Forecasting with New Cray System

Today Cray announced the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has selected a Cray XC30 supercomputer and Cray Sonexion storage for their next operational facility. The new Cray system will improve ECMWF’s forecasting capabilities through increased resolution and model enhancements, as well as support ECMWF’s research program. I am looking forward to working with […]